What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Matty]

The travelling fitters are off again. Wagons roll etc etc. Love it 👍

[jakebullet]

Been to makers central today. Met Alec Steele. He's a really nice man, even to useless gimps.

[DSdriver]

Passed a cheap tyre place on the Halling road and there was a Citroen C6 outside with the wheels off... and my first thought was 'I wonder if that's someone on here'

[myglaren]

 

[GeorgeB]

45 minutes ago, myglaren said:

 

Whut?

[myglaren]

14 hours ago, GeorgeB said:

Whut?

X being an arse.  Seems to have been removed.

[myglaren]

[Vantman]

[vulgalour]

I make crochet blankets out of yarn leftover from my own projects and that's been donated to the local charity shops.  They're a fun light project when I need to keep my hands busy, and the finished blankets always end up with friends, in the winter box at home, or at the local animal rescue shelter.  It's a good way to make something useful out of something that would otherwise be thrown away.  I didn't pay much attention to what I picked up today except for one ball having a rather old fashioned looking label and instructions.

Then I took a closer look.  Nylon isn't a thing you normally see on yarn these days, it's usually acrylic or polyester, so that's a bit unusual.  Then I saw it was spun in Liverpool specifically for Littlewoods.  There's no date, but BS 984 was introduced in 1976 so perhaps that gives us the oldest date it could be?

[hairnet]

cole and fluzz

just bought a 1.2 nova with a redtop in it for 7k

the chap had a fiat 500 giardinera for 8.5k 

i know hes an idiot but not that a big an idiot surely

[wuvvum]

Scrolling through an old thread and was reminded of this gem from Mr_Bo11ox a few years back.  Absolute poetry.

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I hate 'its only worth what someone is willing to pay' cos it is such a tedious, predictable, pointless cliché of a sentence that adds nowt. When you see these bell ends on FB asking 'whats it worth' day in day out, EVERY SINGLE TIME you get some parsnip-fingered nonce piping in with 'its only worth what someone is willing to pay' like its some great nugget of profound wisdom that's going to part the clouds of uncertainty and finally allow beautiful rays of deal-making sunshine to fall on the whole dismal exchange, when in reality its just the car-trading equivalent of two tubercular cretins pointlessly throwing breadsticks at each other.

 

[beko1987]

On 17/05/2026 at 15:05, jakebullet said:

Been to makers central today. Met Alec Steele. He's a really nice man, even to useless gimps.

Nice, I do watch him from time to time. Found him a bit loud and shouty at first but there's no denying the skill and craft and now I usually watch 👌 

[beko1987]

12 hours ago, vulgalour said:

I make crochet blankets out of yarn leftover from my own projects and that's been donated to the local charity shops.  They're a fun light project when I need to keep my hands busy, and the finished blankets always end up with friends, in the winter box at home, or at the local animal rescue shelter.  It's a good way to make something useful out of something that would otherwise be thrown away.  I didn't pay much attention to what I picked up today except for one ball having a rather old fashioned looking label and instructions.

Then I took a closer look.  Nylon isn't a thing you normally see on yarn these days, it's usually acrylic or polyester, so that's a bit unusual.  Then I saw it was spun in Liverpool specifically for Littlewoods.  There's no date, but BS 984 was introduced in 1976 so perhaps that gives us the oldest date it could be?

Being old/retro/vintage/nos your going to find it's the best darn yarn you've ever used and you'll never find any more 😂😢 

Screams at least 1970s to be, the design on the packaging at least. Remarkably clean yarn for its age

[myglaren]

[Faker]

On 02/04/2026 at 21:22, hairnet said:

going to belfast in coupla weeks for a thing *rant the train to brum was more than the flight - they dont do local stuff till september all the southern gigs are first

looking for breakfast for cheap as brekky in the hotel is 17.50 there was a resturant up the street but very hipster (its north belfast ffs) and no sign of your actual ulster fry @Faker @warninglight

was looking at a local premier inn within walking distance (are they 11.50 now) used to be 8.50

but looking for possible dinner places before the thing

saw a greggs on the way back to the bus

but then saw maggie mays - thatll do  (never been to the central one)

Missed this post hairnet! Sorry bud!!

[Faker]

On 29/03/2026 at 23:14, hairnet said:

looking at bikes for sale and one is in ballyclare

no not the auctions @Faker  @warninglight @chaseracer

its 500 cheaper than new done only a few miles and its only 50 on the plane

bit of a faff from templepatrick tho

Did you make a purchase?

[hairnet]

6 hours ago, Faker said:

Did you make a purchase?

yeah just not that one

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

[DavieW]

Had to do a double take when I saw the name of this investment company in Inverness. 

 

[Barry Cade]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

Had to do a double take when I saw the name of this investment company. 

 

[Rustybullethole]

Tents and trails

 

[DavieW]

There's been bird scarers going off for the last couple of weeks. A guy on one of the village FB pages posts this. 

[High Jetter]

19 minutes ago, DavieW said:

There's been bird scarers going off for the last couple of weeks. A guy on one of the village FB pages posts this. 

With a surname like that you'd think he'd recognize the sound!

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, DavieW said:

There's been bird scarers going off for the last couple of weeks. A guy on one of the village FB pages posts this. 

Did he fire off the question without thinking?

[hairnet]

@beko1987

Is your bit this posh

[hairnet]

Bangers and cash and not 60 secs i to telling whats on the programme theyve bought the rustiest w126 ever

Just fucking why

Will it top the land rover or the saab price tag

[hairnet]

Oh dear

[hairnet]

Oh no

[BenRMG89]

Survived for another year!

[hairnet]

Lmfao

Theyve now bought late 90s s class ex queen of jordan

First reaction from the merc specialists 

Ohhhh noooooooo / yoksher accent